PDP national leadership accuses Fayose of causing confusion in the party
– The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) seems to have taken another dimension
– The relationship between the National Working Committee and Governor Ayo Fayose seem to have gone soured
– The party leadership has accused the governor of polarising the party
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state has been accused of causing confusion in the PDP ahead of the South-west zonal congress of the party billed for Akure, Ondo state.
Governor Ayo Fayose and PDP national chairman, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff
The accusation is coming from the national leadership of the party who spoke through its national secretary, Professor Wale Oladipo, The Punch reports.
Briefing newsmen at the party secretariat today, May 14, Oladipo said Fayose was behind the plan to hold the South-west zonal congress in Akure today, May 14, despite an existing court order which asked the party to suspend the exercise.
According to him, the party had to obey the order of Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos, which restrained the party from going ahead with its zonal congress.
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Justice Buba had ruled on an ex parte application brought before him on Thursday, May 12 by the PDP South-west zonal secretary, Chief ‘Pegba Otemolu restraining the party from going ahead with the scheduled congress.
The judge further explained that the order would subsist until the final determination of Otemolu’s main suit.
A day after the judgement, Fayose visited the national secretariat of the PDP in Abuja, boasting that the congress would go ahead despite the court order.
Oladipo revealed that the national legal adviser of the PDP, Victory Kwon, had advised the party to obey court order which was served yesterday afternoon.
He also informed journalists that the national chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff had been notified of the order even though he was absent when it was served.
“Governor Fayose is not a member of the National Working Committee of the PDP, but he’s causing confusion with his utterances.
“We are not dabbling into his government and he has no right to tell us how to run the party here. We have an order of the court stopping the congress. The governor cannot overrule the court.
“He should behave like other governors who do not dabble into the running of the party at the national level. He should learn from Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo state who respect the party and the president of the country.
“The order of the court was even published in three national dailies and therefore, he can’t deny he was not aware.
“Our National Legal adviser who is the chief legal adviser of the party, Victor Kwon, has advised that we comply with the order and we are complying with it. We are not above the law of the land,” Oladipo said.
He warned that if the congress goes on, whatever result that come out from the exercise would not be respected by the party.
His words: “Those who want to claim they want to organise any conference are doing that on their own, not on behalf of the party.
“Whatever come out of it would be null and void because we are not monitoring it just as the Independent National Electoral Commission has also been informed about the order of the court.
“So, the commission will also not be part of any illegality . We definitely won’t be part of it.”
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In a related development, Jerry Gana, a former minister of information, and some other leading members of the PDP have announced the takeover of the party from its national chairman, Ali Sheriff.
Gana, the head of the group called “Concerned Stakeholders”, met with party’s leading members on Thursday, May 12, at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja.
The meeting was co-chaired by Ibrahim Mantu, a former deputy president of the Senate, Tunde Adeniran, a former minister of education, and Raymond Dokpesi, media mogul.
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